Christmas Baking 2013 - Santa's Hats

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This was an unexpected addition. I found this recipe in an advert booklet for Dr Oetker products and couldn't resist.

Ingredients:
300 gr flour
2 flat teaspoons of honey cake spice, mixed with baking powder
125 gr margarine
125 gr powdered sugar (or is it called icing sugar in English?)
1 pck vanilla-flavoured sugar
1 egg (size M)
2 tablespoons of milk

For the decoration:
50-100 gr powdered sugar
2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice
1-2 teaspoons of food colouring (red)
small white stars of sugar (you can buy them ready-made here)

How to make it?

*Pre-heat oven to 160-180°C (Gas: Grad 3-4), depending on your oven.
*Cover baking tin (30x40cm) with baking paper.
*Mix all ingredients in a bowl and knead until you have a nice, smooth dough.
*Divide dough in 4 equal parts.
*Roll out each part to a square of 24x13cm.
*Divide each square in 8 equal parts.
*Cut diagonally each part - you'll get 13 triangles.
*Fold back the narrow side - that will be the brim of Santa's hat. You can fold the peak of the hats back, too, they look rather cute that way.
*Bake the biscuits for 12-15 minutes; again, depending on your oven.
*Let the biscuits cool. In the meantime, mix powdered sugar with lemon juice. You'll need a thick mass, like molasses. Paint the brims of the hats with white icing.
*Then add red food colouring to the mass and paint the rest of the hats.
*Decorate them with little stars of sugar and let them dry overnight.

In a sealed tin box these biscutist should remain fresh for 3 weeks.